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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1933
Page
2
Major league clubs reshuffle outfields and battery lines with many new faces for the 1933 season. Yankees and Indians repeat old stars, while multiple clubs add rookies and trades. Babe Herman injures ankle. Cubs face outfield reshuffle.
Round two underway at Sedgefield Country Club Amateur event with many High Point residents in the field. Tully Blair leads with 72 while Alan Smith posts 73 and Buster Moffitt 75 to pace High Point entrants as five divisions vie for prizes when the 54 hole tourney concludes Sunday afternoon.
New Yorks three major clubs return to home crowds in spring training and exhibition tours. The Yankees and Dodgers start their season at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, while the Giants host the Detroit Tigers at the Polo Grounds, weather permitting.
Chicago rivals Cubs and White Sox meet at Comiskey Park for a two game city series opener. Weather permitting both teams aim to showcase strength as they pursue early season bragging rights. Todd was slated to start for the Cubs against Cleveland in the American League.
A brief item notes that eight hundred eighty eight distinct operations are needed to manufacture a shotgun shell which falls to four cents, indicating a surprisingly complex production process for a low price.
Boston dispatch reports Quigley found a way to get out of jail, a method that succeeded once. Officials debated whether the release resulted from nerves or prison fare before deciding to release him.
High Point College defeated the Reidsville Jacky Strike team 11 to 8 in Reidsville. The Panthers then beat Southern Public Utilities 11 hits and nine runs featured by Bill Bryant's ninth inning homer. Pinkston Graham and Bryant led the offense. Sherrill pitched well for the locals.
Cincinnati report notes Fred Schild, president of the Kenton Revolver League, shooting 92 hits out of 100 in a recent meet. The article headlines bandits beware of his precision.
D T Yow was elected head of the Industrial Circuit as six clubs prepare a new league. Representatives from Southern Public Utilities High Point Overall Adams Millis Highland Mills and Southern Chair attended and Pickett Cotton Mills was named as the sixth team. The league adopted the D on May 6.
Jumping Joe Savoldi defeated Jim Londos in a one fall match lasting 20 minutes and 26 seconds at the Chicago stadium before 8,000 fans. Dispute followed over whether the bout counted as a championship and if Savoldi earned recognition from the National Wrestling Association, with officials and Londos disputing the outcome.
Dempsey wins approval to move Baer Schmeling fight to June 8 after promoting win over Jimmy Johnston. The change delays the Garden heavyweight title bout to early July, aligning two major outdoor NYC boxing cards with Sharkey Carnera proposed for July. A 20 day rule between major bouts prompts weather risks for May scheduling.
Primo Carneara says he will promote a 1934 bout in Rome between himself and Bob, former world champion. Carneara is scheduled to box Jack Sharkey for the heavyweight title in New York during the summer.
Mrs Robert P Callahan objected to her husband attending an ice skating party and fired a loaded gun toward him. The weapon contained blanks and no one was harmed.
High Point Bisons won a Greensboro–Durham tri meet scoring 68 points to Durham 42 and Greensboro 34. Red Hendricks took two firsts and one second including a pole vault of 10 ft 10 in and a javelin 158 ft 8 in. M Sams of High Point also won two firsts in 120 yard high hurdles and high jump.
High Point high school fell 9 to 4 to Greensboro as errors in the seventh inning broke a 4 all tie. Weston started on the mound for the locals but left after walking three. Culler and Garner split the innings with mixed results. H. Clements led High Point with three doubles in five trips, while M Smith Connor and Harris added two hits each.
George T. Dunlap Jr. of Garden City defeats Jack Toomer of Jacksonville 7 and 6 to capture the North and South amateur golf title. Dunlap led with a round of 64 tying the course record and has posted subpar scores through the match play, securing his second North and South amateur win.
On clear days the cathedral of St Isaacs in Leningrad is visible up to 20 miles along the Gulf of Finland, marking a striking coastal sight.
Tar Heel college squads played today with North Carolina routing Virginia Polytechnic 9 to 1 in Blacksburg and preparing for Washington and Lee in Lexington. Elon’s Briggs held Delaware scoreless until the ninth as Lenoir Rhyne defeated Atlantic Christian 16 to 3. North Carolina swept tennis standings by defeating Duke 25 to 4 in a mass tourney, leading 104 to 56 with about 25 matches left.
Lees-McRae College near Banner Blackford will close six weeks early after a lightning strike damaged the power plant and cut electric and water services. Two typhoid fever cases also influenced the decision, though credits will be kept through correspondence with the faculty.
An estimate suggests about 1100 distinct kinds of animals and insects exist globally, with thousands of varieties within each group. The count highlights the planet's rich biodiversity across ecosystems and regions.
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